Lactantius

Lepida Lactantii Firmiani opera accurate graeco adiuncto castigata: Eiusde[m] Nephytomon: Carmina de Phoenice. & Christi resurrectione. Io. Chry. De eucharistia sermo. Lau. Vall. sermo. Phil. ad Theo. adhortatio

      [colophon: Parisiis:: Pro Ioha{n}ne Petit fidelissimo bibliopola in Bellouisu,, 1509].. Recent calf old style, tooled in blind on spine and covers. Faint traces of water and resultant mild arrested mildew in lower outer corners of earliest few pages. Marginalia in some parts affected by a binder's trimming; in other cases, not. All edges carmine. A very good copy. . 4to (19.5 cm; 7.5"). [10], ccxxxv, [1] ff. . Joining the works of Lactantius (ca. 240 - ca. 320) in this handsome Petit/Marchand production are De resurrectionis dominicae die (leaves cxc-cxci) by Venantius Fortunatus, Tertullian's Apologeticus adversus gentes (leaves cxci [verso] - ccxv [verso]), Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus's Salve festa dies, and other pieces by St. John Chrysostom and Lorenzo Valla. The whole is edited by Aegidius Maserius.#11; The volume is printed in a clear roman face with numerous ornamental woodcut initials and with side- and shoulder-notes. The Jean Petit publisher's device is on the title-page and that of Guy Marchand on the verso of the last. Additionally, there is a full-page woodcut of a scholar in his study opposite the first numbered leaf. A 16th-century reader has added a significant amount of marginal commentary on the text.